13 Best nonfiction books like Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City by Ana Kinsella

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Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

By: Ana Kinsella

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is a book about the joy of city life. The joy that comes from chance encounters, unexpected si…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City by Ana Kinsella , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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2. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

Similar categories in Tove Ditlevsen's Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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5. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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6. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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7. There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more

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8. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

By: Hwang Bo-Reum

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more

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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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9. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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10. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • travel
  • nonfiction
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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11. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Angela Hui's Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
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12. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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14. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

By: Emma Dabiri

4.06

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

By: Rebecca May Johnson

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca May Johnson's Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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16. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

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18. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Annan's In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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19. The Joy of Small Things

By: Hannah Jane Parkinson

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Jane Parkinson's The Joy of Small Things book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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21. Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

By: Ana Kinsella

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is a book about the joy of city life. The joy that comes from chance encounters, unexpected si… read more

Similar categories in Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City book and Ana Kinsella's Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • cities

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Rebecca Solnit

2.84

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Cookie Mueller

4.49

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Deborah Levy

4.29

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Sheila Heti

4.02

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4.13

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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

3.55

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Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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Angela Hui

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